Letters To Governor Cuomo

The Concerned Citizens of Schuyler County have asked that we post the demands that they submitted to the Schuyler County Legislature on Monday July 14th, and letter they drafted to Governor Cuomo. Please download the letter, sign and send to Cuomo. Thank you!

Please print out these letters, sign them and mail them to Governor Cuomo. Thanks!

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Back in 1977, amidst a nationwide recession, the "I Love New York" Tourism campaign was launched to improve the state's economy. No place in the state of New York reflects the success of this ongoing campaign better than the Finger Lakes Region.

Thirty-seven years later, on Oct., 28,Governor Cuomo announced that New York State had been recognized as "Wine Region of the Year" by Wine Enthusiast magazine. New York now comes in third in this nation for wine production, and the hub of that is most certainly the Finger Lakes region.

Now, as the excitement builds in the Finger Lakes wine country with vintners from California and Europe staking claim to the bountiful banks of Seneca Lake, Crestwood Midstream will put a halt on the momentum in the growth of the very successful wine and tourism industry in the area.Crestwood's plans for methane and LPG storage in the old crumbling salt caverns that exist by Seneca Lake conflict tremendously with the flourishing agricultural and tourism industry that already exists there.

Salt caverns represented 7 percent of the underground storage sites for gas in 2002 and were responsible for 100 percent of the catastrophic accidents involving gas storage between 1972 and 2004.

Pressurizing these old salt caverns could cause salt and gas to seep into the lake and pollute the ground. Leaking pipelines and salt caverns will pollute the atmosphere. The associated trucking and propane tanker cars on rail cannot exist congruently in this area of unrivaled beauty and abundance.In the end, if the Texas-based Crestwood continues this dangerous project, then it will reap all the reward while New Yorkers will endure all the burdensome consequences.

The battle under way over the underground storage of propane in the Finger Lakes wine country is playing out as a small-scale version of New York State’s hydrofracking standoff.As with the drilling ...